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This guidance document provides lessons and recommendations on how to accomplish a paradigm shift in the management of solid waste. It explores a low-cost, low-technology, community-based and decentralized waste-to-resource model called the Integrated Resource Recovery Centre. The publication articulates key lessons in establishing Integrated Resource Recovery Centres: (i) building partnerships; (ii) awareness raising and behaviour change; (iii) facilities management and operational performance; and (iv) creating an enabling environment for replication and scaling up.

This guidance document provides policymakers with an overview of selected policy tools that have been leveraged to support transformation to green sustainable economic development models. Through case studies of government- and private sector-led initiatives from across the region, the following chapters showcase the diversity of measures that can be incorporated into legislative, normative and operational frameworks of the public and private sectors.

This activity report is based on the Asia and the Pacific megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, which are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges. These megatrends are already shaping the future patterns of resource use and defining who benefits the most and who loses. Aligning these trends with sustainable development requires political will and action.

This analytical document focuses on the higher temperatures, sea level rise, and extreme weather events linked to climate change are having a major impact on the Asia-Pacific region, harming its economies, natural and physical assets, and compounding developmental challenges, including poverty, food and energy security and health. Many countries in the Asia-Pacific region are geographically vulnerable and highly exposed to the damaging impacts of climate change. 

En este documento de orientación se incluye la narración de los casos ganadores del concurso Fontagro, con el fin de identificar casos exitosos de adaptación al cambio climático en la agricultura familiar, y difundir las lecciones aprendidas. Cada caso incluye datos -cuantificables en la mayoría de los casos- que muestran los resultados obtenidos por los productores familiares después de implementar las innovaciones. En general, los casos han contado con una participación primordial de los usuarios de la tecnología y se han puesto en práctica en alianza con múltiples instituciones de investigación y desarrollo. Finalmente se incluyen algunas reflexiones y una síntesis de las lecciones aprendidas.

Este informe de actividad incluye una extensa revisión de la literatura, análisis de estudios de casos, entrevistas exhaustivas, numerosas consultas informales y una encuesta para identificar las brechas que existen en la literatura sobre activos abandonados. El objetivo del mismo es profundizar en el tema y la bibliografía existente, así como también destacar las oportunidades de desarrollo de trabajos futuros, especialmente en ALC. 

These guidance documents allow countries to access resources for transforming their national commitments into achievable investment plans. It is comprised of four main elements: 1) NDC programmer, 2) NDC pipeline accelerator, 3) NDC market booster, and 4) NDC finance mobilizer. The Paris Agreement, the UN’s sustainable development goals and the delivery of iNDCs marked a turning point towards shouldering climate responsibility and improving human welfare.

This guidance document presents historical and future climate profiles for Haiti both from available literature and from available station, gridded and modelled data. The document is sequenced according to climate variable with temperature considered first and then rainfall. Sea level rise and hurricanes are also considered, though more in a regional context than specific to Haiti. For each considered variable, the historical picture is presented first followed by future projections.

This activity report sets out the joint MDB approach for adaptation finance reporting, developed by a group of MDBs to work towards better tracking of climate finance. It responds to the particular context of the activities that the MDBs carry out in developing and emerging economies and is built on the premise that climate adaptation and sustainable development are closely aligned. This harmonized methodology has emerged from a process to find commonalities between existing MDB approaches to adaptation finance, each reflecting a different set of sectoral, geographic and investment mandates.

Este documento analítico se enfoca en la identificación de los retos económicos, sociales y ambientales del desarrollo rural y agroalimentario en Centroamérica y la República Dominicana, y la importancia de los sistemas de información para la formulación, monitoreo y evaluación de políticas públicas. Asimismo, se muestra la interconexión de dichos retos con los ODS y con las demás metas e indicadores sobre la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional y el desarrollo rural. 

Este informe de actividad se desarrolla en el marco de la iniciativa “La Economía del Cambio Climático en Centroamérica” (ECC CA) desde 2008 con el propósito de estimar y evidenciar los impactos de la variabilidad y el cambio climático y propiciar la discusión sobre políticas públicas en sectores clave. Esta publicación es un resumen de los análisis de impactos potenciales del cambio climático y de las discusiones sobre opciones de políticas públicas en Honduras generadas a partir de la iniciativa ECC CA.

This analytical document is based on analysis between 2008 and 2015 within the framework of “The Economics of Climate Change in Central America Initiative”, which aimed at demonstrating the impacts of climate variability and change and fostering a discussion on public policies in key sectors. These policy discussions have generated a proposal to give priority to adaptation that explicitly favours sustainability and inclusion, and integrated with programmes to reduce poverty and vulnerability. 

This analytical document is based on the economic impacts of climate change in the coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean, as it it compiles specific types of information required in order to do so. The outputs are presented in four core documents: an analysis of coastal dynamics and climate variability, a study on the vulnerability of coastal areas, an evaluation of the impacts of climate change and an exploration of how all these factors can be brought together in an assessment of the risks of the impacts of climate change on the region’s coastal areas.

This guidance document offers an overview of the main determinants of economic, production, social and environmental  circumstances of European Union and CELAC countries.  Its contents will be enhanced and built upon by the discussions in Santo Domingo, and by other contributions from the authorities of Latin American, Caribbean and European countries. 

This analytical document aims to provide a complement to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals from a structuralist perspective and from the point of view of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. In this endeavour, the structuralist tradition is expanded to afford more emphasis to the environmental and global dimensions of economic development. 

This analytical document provides preliminary results of the impact evaluation for the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in Senegal (2013-2015). Climate change puts millions of people’s lives at risk, trapping them in food insecurity and poverty. When climate disasters strike, the situation of vulnerable people quickly deteriorate into a food and nutrition crisis. The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative offers integrated risk management strategies to build farmers’ resilience to climate-related shocks and to improve their livelihoods. 

This activity report analyzes climate trends and impacts on food security in the Kyrgyz Republic. It aims to outline how the negative impact of climate risks on agricultural production is transmitted to the most vulnerable communities and households. The study provides a set of key policies to build adaptive capacity and reduce climate-related food insecurity.

This activity report examines climate impacts on livelihoods and is intended to be used as a tool to identify adaptation options for the most vulnerable livelihoods. Despite being a relatively small country, livelihoods in Timor-Leste are diverse owing to a complex topography and the bimodal rainfall pattern in the southern coast. A special section on the impacts of the 2015/2016 El Nino episode to support contingency planning and possible response efforts is included. 

This activity report examines climate impacts on livelihoods and is intended to be used as a tool to identify adaptation options for the most vulnerable livelihoods. Livelihoods in Lao PDR are diverse owing to a complex topography and the flows of the Mekong River basin. Over 40 unique livelihood groups exist in the country, each with a unique resilience profile.

This analytical document displays the key findings from a survey conducted by WFP in 2015, with regard  to cookstove activities to better understand how to scale up its Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) programmes. This programme  addresses the serious challenges faced by the most vulnerable people linked with access to cooking fuel.